Duplicate Page Content Errors on Moz Crawl Report

[TomKing]

Hi All,

I seem to be losing a 'firefighting' battle with regards to various errors being reported on the Moz crawl report relating to;

• Duplicate Page Content
• Missing Page Title
• Missing Meta
• Duplicate Page Title

While I acknowledge that some of the errors are valid (and we are working through them), I find some of them difficult to understand...

Here is an example of a 'duplicate page content' error being reported;

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com (which is obviously our homepage)

Is reported to have 'duplicate page content' compared with the following pages;

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/guides/gratuities

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/cruise-deals/cruise-line-deals/holland-america-2014-offers/?order_by=brochure_lead_difference

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/about-us/meet-the-team/craig

All 3 of those pages are completely different hence my confusion...

This is just a solitary example, there are many more!

I would be most interested to hear what people's opinions are...

Many thanks

Andy

[artdivision]

here is a guess (jsut a guess though). I think this is happening due to your code and your side bars. If you CNTR+U on Chrome you will see that code wise everything is the same  and your content on the 2 examples is very thin (100 words or so) thus it might see it as duplicate.

I wouldnt worry much for something like that though as "duplciate content" normally are pages that target the same product for a different location with people being lazy changing anything but a post code and a city name, or some errors in your database that automatically create similar pages with different url variations.

Hope this helps

[SamWeber]

Hey Andy,

Thanks for reaching out! The Duplicate Content errors are actually aggregated using similar criteria as Google - that's a 95% similarity on the code level.

So even if something like the title is different, if the overall code is 95% the same they will be flagged and could potentially get penalized by the Search Engines. Using third party duplicate content checkers on the URLs you provided, it does look like all but one combo meet the 95% threshold. In that one case, we may have found them to be 95% similar at the time of the crawl, but they aren't any longer so that will be reflected in the next crawl.

To get more information on Duplicate Content, check out our Help Hub.

I hope that makes sense. Let me know if you have any other questions and have a great day!